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App | Liam Dunbar | ataraxion
P L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name: Anna
OOC Journal:rikym
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: Nope.
Email + IM: surre41ist[at]gmail[dot]com + tatsumi kanji on AIM.
Characters Played at Ataraxion: This guy'll be my first!
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Liam Dunbar
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: End of Season 4
Number: 009
Setting: Teen Wolf takes place in the fictional town of Beacon Hills, California— and while the timeline is a little sketchy in points, it definitely takes place in "the modern day". While supernatural creatures are a well kept secret in this world, it's also clear that there are groups of people who do know— and the bestiary of supernatural creatures known to the cast keeps growing— and the lore around the werewolves, especially, keeps evolving as well.
History: Liam Dunbar hasn't ever exactly been a normal kid. It's not like he was a born werewolf, or anything, though. No, he was just diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder when he trashed his lacrosse coach's car at his old school, and marked it rather memorably with the words: "This is your fault."
It's carrying this (poorly kept) secret that he arrives at Beacon Hills High, threatening Scott and Stiles' place on the lacrosse team through how amazingly good he is at lacrosse. He's better than Jackson, even, naturally— and this is before Scott has to bite him to save him from falling off a building.
It's with this that Liam really starts to struggle as a character— when you add supernatural abilities to an already unstable personality, things can get complicated. While they never get quite as complicated as they could (no Kanima for this guy)— most of his story becomes about self control, and learning to trust a guy whose first instinct after he bit him was to tie him up with duct tape and throw him in a bathtub. It takes a little longer for him to realize that it's really in his best interests to listen to Scott McCall— until he realizes that Scott genuinely wants to help him out in the way that only he can.
This is put to the test throughout Season 4, even as the metaplot unfolds. The first major breakthrough for them comes when they have to play Liam's old school— and Liam says here that he'd be less worried if Scott was there to protect them from the assassins that they thought were after Liam (even if they were after Brett, in the end.) Liam still gets angry— especially meeting Brett before the game, but we can already see that at least he's started to make some changes for the better. When he's captured by Garrett and thrown down a well (because he is on the dead pool list, after all), he realizes with absolute sureity that he can't do it alone— and almost dies from wolfsbaned poisoning in the process.
By the time Scott decides to bait the Benefactor to them, Liam's already embedded himself into the group. He mostly stays on the sidelines— until the cameras on the roof go out, and he runs to go to help, with Kira. He's almost killed by the berserkers, but he's still able to fight them off— and he has to save Kira in the process. He's also involved in Scott's dreams that he has during his "death"— although more as the physical manifestation of Scott's anxieties over his responsibily as an alpha. Even in these scenes (even if it's not really him) it's still clear that Liam already is an important part of Scott's pack, even if no one was really expecting it.
It's after Liam fights the berserkers that his arc starts coming to a head, even if it's slow at first. He starts seeing the berserkers occasionally during the daytime— and even if they aren't actually there, this is actually what starts to truly inspire his best friend's (Mason's) concern in him, and actually try to ask what's going on. At this point, Liam still sidesteps it with Mason, and unfortunately he doesn't end up being the one to reveal anything to Mason (although Mason starts to get some idea on his own.)
As the stakes of the dead pool rise, Liam is mostly kept out of harm's way by Scott (at least at first). Maybe it's because Scott wants to protect his beta or because he's not yet strong enough to protect people. It's clear by this point that the reason he isn't being more of a help isn't because he's selfish, but because of a lack of confidence. "How are you all still alive?" is his only question, before Scott takes him home and the dead pool, at least, is taken care of.
Liam still struggles though, and the real danger of this season is only revealed after the dead pool is dissolved. Liam's been haunted by the berserkers, even as it means that he pushes his friends and the rest of Scott's pack further away. He gets worse and worse, until Scott gets kidnapped, and Brett (his old teammate) tells him that he's lucky to have an alpha as good as Scott at their lacrosse game. This inspires him to head to Mexico with the rest of the group when they actually realize what had happened. He even manages to find some control— through the three things that cannot be hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth. In what's perhaps his most important development, he's the one who manages to tell Scott that he isn't a monster, but a werewolf— and thus is the one to really be responsible for bringing Scott back from being a berserker and to full control.
At the end of the season, Liam is obviously accepted, and it's implied that he, Stiles, and Scott are going to be together a lot more moving forward, at least for the sake of lacrosse.
Personality: Initially, Liam seems like a cocky freshman who's in too deep for who he is. This isn't entirely an incorrect assessment— Liam is cocky in a lot of ways, but mostly in the context of lacrosse. He's incredibly confident in this tiny vertical for a reason— he's a great player and he has great reflexes, and he loves playing more than absolutely anything.
Besides the cockiness, the other overwhelming trait Liam has on first glance is rage. Liam is angry— and it's never really explained just what makes him angry. The IED that he was diagnosed with after trashing his coach's car is a constant struggle for Liam— and it's very clear that he wants to take care of it and he just doesn't know how to best go about that. He clearly feels bad that it makes things hard for his parents (and there's clearly at least a little bit of family strife in his past, since the man he calls "dad" is his stepdad), but he doesn't know how to fix it at all. He doesn't take his medication (risperidone), but not because he doesn't want to feel better. He doesn't take it because it makes him too tired to play lacrosse, which he enjoys too much to give up. Even if it means that he's essentially a ticking timebomb, even before he's turned into a werewolf. After he turns into a werewolf, things get worse for his anger, at least at first. Even if that anger could be a source of strength, that only counts once he has control over it. And it takes almost all of Season 4 before Liam gains any control at all.
He's also an incredibly poor liar— which makes things kind of hard for him as a new werewolf. He seems to be reluctant to really lean on anyone else, but the way that he lies is often so comedically bad that he doesn't really succeed in pushing people away like he wants to. He's definitely a bit easily scared— he hasn't quite been a werewolf long enough or involved in the supernatural long enough that everything doesn't just feel insanely overwhelming. This is fairly understandable. He's basically a fish out of water in this world— overwhelmed by the reality that he could easily die. And it wasn't like he ever asked for this.
But even with all of this, Liam is incredibly loyal in his own way. When he meets the team captain of his old team, he at least tries to give him a handshake in some slightly misplaced attempt at maturity. He's incredibly loyal to Scott and he's always the type to worry about his friends, and if they're truly in danger, he'll go running to try and protect them. He's also kind of a fussy, neurotic worrier— most evident in how unsure he felt about the plan for Scott to temporarily die to bait the Benefactor to come see them. He's basically a fish out of water in a group of people who've already become desensitized to the supernatural— and in some ways Liam is lucky, because he doesn't know how badly it's gone for some who have come before him.
Going forward on the Tranquility, Liam's biggest initial will be no longer having Scott to lean on. He was just starting to be more willing to depend on Scott, and since he isn't currently in the game, that will probably be his biggest challenge— not closing off completely to other people. He's pretty vulnerable psychologically— as evidenced by how plagued he was by the berserkers in Season 4. Since most of his development over the season involved him learning how to trust people— which I illustrated more above in the history section, that's going to be what he's mostly going to have to relearn in Ataraxion. He technically has the equipment to control his anger, but having the motivation to keep that up initially, at least, will be a major challenge for him.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Abilities Standard werewolf powers in the Teen Wolf universe— heightened senses, accelerated healing, enhanced agility, and enhanced strength. He's also an incredibly good lacrosse player even as a normal human. He could probably learn how to transfer pain or memories, but those aren't things that he really knows about— and he can still barely control his powers.
Weaknesses: Wolfsbane is probably the most major one— although also not terribly relevant. Like any other werewolf in the universe, this can make Liam sick or, if it's strong enough, kill him. Besides that, he can also of course be trapped by mountain ash, and the lunar eclipse would render him powerless. Electricity— probably more common in Ataraxion— could keep him weak and human if it was continuously applied. Most importantly, Liam is still a very new werewolf, and has only shown the ability to control his transformation at all very recently. It probably wouldn't be hard to throw him out of that. Werewolves also don't metabolize alcohol like humans— which means it's actually unknown whether his antipsychotic would work on him as a werewolf, either. For the sake of this game, I'm going to be assuming that they won't be working at full strength for him as a werewolf— but he won't be aware of that, so they still might have some placebo effect.
Limitations: I'm not sure how best to limit his powers— except to say that even if he went into full werewolf and rage mode (which combined has allowed Liam to do some pretty bad things in terms of property damage), he still wouldn't be able to somehow escape the ship. I imagine that the ship is probably strong enough to withstand quite a lot of damage though.
Inventory:
Two months worth of his antipsychotic
His lacrosse jersey
A lacrosse ball
Appearance:
Liam is 15 and he looks like it. He's actually tiny— he stands at around 5'5''. He's pretty athletic— and looks it too, although we don't see much of his bare arms in the series. When he turns into a wolf, he grows a bit of unfortunate facial hair and his eyes are, of course, the standard werewolf yellow in that form. He likes to dress like a typical teenaged jock.
Age: 15
AU Clarification: I am reapping him to Planetfall with no memories of his time on the Tranquility.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: Liam sunk down in a corner of one of the jungle levels of the oxygen garden. He'd come here because being up here helped him relax, even if it was nothing like the forests in California. Today it wasn't enough to just come up here, though. He was starting to feel worse— so he'd brought something else with him.
He couldn't help but snort as he shook out the pills onto his hand. They were such tiny little pills when he actually looked at them. If he so much as had an angry thought, he'd probably crush them to powder.
He didn't get why this was what he'd ended up with— two months worth of pills that he'd stopped taking months before he'd ended up on the Tranquility. Even thought it had been days already, he was still half convinced that he'd wake up and he'd be back in Beacon Hills. That was probably too much to hope for at this point, but that was part of the reason he had these pills with him in the first place.
He'd tried the words already today— "the sun, the moon, and the truth." It was impossible to tell when the moon was going to be full here, but he could feel his thoughts race in that way that used to only precede him breaking something but now also sometimes preceded him growing fangs or claws. They had been enough, that one time, but he'd wanted to protect Scott, then. He'd had people to protect, then.
He didn't know if anyone from Beacon Hills was here, not really. He hadn't really bothered to look through the directory on that weird phone he got, or anything. He was still half-convinced that this was all just a dream and he was going to wake up tomorrow. But he knew that Scott wasn't here. He'd be able to tell that no matter what— and without Scott around, without his alpha around, it was getting harder and harder to keep his mind clear.
Maybe taking something that made him tired wouldn't be too bad right now. It wasn't like he could even play lacrosse if he wanted to. And if taking some of these could help him keep this under control, maybe that wouldn't be too bad.
Comms Sample: [As crazy as his first few days here have been, it takes a little longer for Liam to actually use the network. It's not that he's afraid of technology— far from it. But you can never be entirely sure who you're going to reach like this.]
Hey— [And then, of course, his voice has to crack, so he takes another moment to get his voice down to the proper octave.]
Hey. [Better.] So— I'm wondering if there's a way to make sure someone else shows up? Like, how do they decide who gets put here, anyways. I'm pretty sure this guy I'm looking for would do way better at this than I would.
[That was the understatement of the year.]
So yeah. I don't really know how long it'll be before someone else can show up— but if it could be like tomorrow that would be good.
Thanks.
Your Name: Anna
OOC Journal:
rikymUnder 18? If yes, what is your age?: Nope.
Email + IM: surre41ist[at]gmail[dot]com + tatsumi kanji on AIM.
Characters Played at Ataraxion: This guy'll be my first!
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Liam Dunbar
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: End of Season 4
Number: 009
Setting: Teen Wolf takes place in the fictional town of Beacon Hills, California— and while the timeline is a little sketchy in points, it definitely takes place in "the modern day". While supernatural creatures are a well kept secret in this world, it's also clear that there are groups of people who do know— and the bestiary of supernatural creatures known to the cast keeps growing— and the lore around the werewolves, especially, keeps evolving as well.
History: Liam Dunbar hasn't ever exactly been a normal kid. It's not like he was a born werewolf, or anything, though. No, he was just diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder when he trashed his lacrosse coach's car at his old school, and marked it rather memorably with the words: "This is your fault."
It's carrying this (poorly kept) secret that he arrives at Beacon Hills High, threatening Scott and Stiles' place on the lacrosse team through how amazingly good he is at lacrosse. He's better than Jackson, even, naturally— and this is before Scott has to bite him to save him from falling off a building.
It's with this that Liam really starts to struggle as a character— when you add supernatural abilities to an already unstable personality, things can get complicated. While they never get quite as complicated as they could (no Kanima for this guy)— most of his story becomes about self control, and learning to trust a guy whose first instinct after he bit him was to tie him up with duct tape and throw him in a bathtub. It takes a little longer for him to realize that it's really in his best interests to listen to Scott McCall— until he realizes that Scott genuinely wants to help him out in the way that only he can.
This is put to the test throughout Season 4, even as the metaplot unfolds. The first major breakthrough for them comes when they have to play Liam's old school— and Liam says here that he'd be less worried if Scott was there to protect them from the assassins that they thought were after Liam (even if they were after Brett, in the end.) Liam still gets angry— especially meeting Brett before the game, but we can already see that at least he's started to make some changes for the better. When he's captured by Garrett and thrown down a well (because he is on the dead pool list, after all), he realizes with absolute sureity that he can't do it alone— and almost dies from wolfsbaned poisoning in the process.
By the time Scott decides to bait the Benefactor to them, Liam's already embedded himself into the group. He mostly stays on the sidelines— until the cameras on the roof go out, and he runs to go to help, with Kira. He's almost killed by the berserkers, but he's still able to fight them off— and he has to save Kira in the process. He's also involved in Scott's dreams that he has during his "death"— although more as the physical manifestation of Scott's anxieties over his responsibily as an alpha. Even in these scenes (even if it's not really him) it's still clear that Liam already is an important part of Scott's pack, even if no one was really expecting it.
It's after Liam fights the berserkers that his arc starts coming to a head, even if it's slow at first. He starts seeing the berserkers occasionally during the daytime— and even if they aren't actually there, this is actually what starts to truly inspire his best friend's (Mason's) concern in him, and actually try to ask what's going on. At this point, Liam still sidesteps it with Mason, and unfortunately he doesn't end up being the one to reveal anything to Mason (although Mason starts to get some idea on his own.)
As the stakes of the dead pool rise, Liam is mostly kept out of harm's way by Scott (at least at first). Maybe it's because Scott wants to protect his beta or because he's not yet strong enough to protect people. It's clear by this point that the reason he isn't being more of a help isn't because he's selfish, but because of a lack of confidence. "How are you all still alive?" is his only question, before Scott takes him home and the dead pool, at least, is taken care of.
Liam still struggles though, and the real danger of this season is only revealed after the dead pool is dissolved. Liam's been haunted by the berserkers, even as it means that he pushes his friends and the rest of Scott's pack further away. He gets worse and worse, until Scott gets kidnapped, and Brett (his old teammate) tells him that he's lucky to have an alpha as good as Scott at their lacrosse game. This inspires him to head to Mexico with the rest of the group when they actually realize what had happened. He even manages to find some control— through the three things that cannot be hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth. In what's perhaps his most important development, he's the one who manages to tell Scott that he isn't a monster, but a werewolf— and thus is the one to really be responsible for bringing Scott back from being a berserker and to full control.
At the end of the season, Liam is obviously accepted, and it's implied that he, Stiles, and Scott are going to be together a lot more moving forward, at least for the sake of lacrosse.
Personality: Initially, Liam seems like a cocky freshman who's in too deep for who he is. This isn't entirely an incorrect assessment— Liam is cocky in a lot of ways, but mostly in the context of lacrosse. He's incredibly confident in this tiny vertical for a reason— he's a great player and he has great reflexes, and he loves playing more than absolutely anything.
Besides the cockiness, the other overwhelming trait Liam has on first glance is rage. Liam is angry— and it's never really explained just what makes him angry. The IED that he was diagnosed with after trashing his coach's car is a constant struggle for Liam— and it's very clear that he wants to take care of it and he just doesn't know how to best go about that. He clearly feels bad that it makes things hard for his parents (and there's clearly at least a little bit of family strife in his past, since the man he calls "dad" is his stepdad), but he doesn't know how to fix it at all. He doesn't take his medication (risperidone), but not because he doesn't want to feel better. He doesn't take it because it makes him too tired to play lacrosse, which he enjoys too much to give up. Even if it means that he's essentially a ticking timebomb, even before he's turned into a werewolf. After he turns into a werewolf, things get worse for his anger, at least at first. Even if that anger could be a source of strength, that only counts once he has control over it. And it takes almost all of Season 4 before Liam gains any control at all.
He's also an incredibly poor liar— which makes things kind of hard for him as a new werewolf. He seems to be reluctant to really lean on anyone else, but the way that he lies is often so comedically bad that he doesn't really succeed in pushing people away like he wants to. He's definitely a bit easily scared— he hasn't quite been a werewolf long enough or involved in the supernatural long enough that everything doesn't just feel insanely overwhelming. This is fairly understandable. He's basically a fish out of water in this world— overwhelmed by the reality that he could easily die. And it wasn't like he ever asked for this.
But even with all of this, Liam is incredibly loyal in his own way. When he meets the team captain of his old team, he at least tries to give him a handshake in some slightly misplaced attempt at maturity. He's incredibly loyal to Scott and he's always the type to worry about his friends, and if they're truly in danger, he'll go running to try and protect them. He's also kind of a fussy, neurotic worrier— most evident in how unsure he felt about the plan for Scott to temporarily die to bait the Benefactor to come see them. He's basically a fish out of water in a group of people who've already become desensitized to the supernatural— and in some ways Liam is lucky, because he doesn't know how badly it's gone for some who have come before him.
Going forward on the Tranquility, Liam's biggest initial will be no longer having Scott to lean on. He was just starting to be more willing to depend on Scott, and since he isn't currently in the game, that will probably be his biggest challenge— not closing off completely to other people. He's pretty vulnerable psychologically— as evidenced by how plagued he was by the berserkers in Season 4. Since most of his development over the season involved him learning how to trust people— which I illustrated more above in the history section, that's going to be what he's mostly going to have to relearn in Ataraxion. He technically has the equipment to control his anger, but having the motivation to keep that up initially, at least, will be a major challenge for him.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Abilities Standard werewolf powers in the Teen Wolf universe— heightened senses, accelerated healing, enhanced agility, and enhanced strength. He's also an incredibly good lacrosse player even as a normal human. He could probably learn how to transfer pain or memories, but those aren't things that he really knows about— and he can still barely control his powers.
Weaknesses: Wolfsbane is probably the most major one— although also not terribly relevant. Like any other werewolf in the universe, this can make Liam sick or, if it's strong enough, kill him. Besides that, he can also of course be trapped by mountain ash, and the lunar eclipse would render him powerless. Electricity— probably more common in Ataraxion— could keep him weak and human if it was continuously applied. Most importantly, Liam is still a very new werewolf, and has only shown the ability to control his transformation at all very recently. It probably wouldn't be hard to throw him out of that. Werewolves also don't metabolize alcohol like humans— which means it's actually unknown whether his antipsychotic would work on him as a werewolf, either. For the sake of this game, I'm going to be assuming that they won't be working at full strength for him as a werewolf— but he won't be aware of that, so they still might have some placebo effect.
Limitations: I'm not sure how best to limit his powers— except to say that even if he went into full werewolf and rage mode (which combined has allowed Liam to do some pretty bad things in terms of property damage), he still wouldn't be able to somehow escape the ship. I imagine that the ship is probably strong enough to withstand quite a lot of damage though.
Inventory:
Two months worth of his antipsychotic
His lacrosse jersey
A lacrosse ball
Appearance:
Liam is 15 and he looks like it. He's actually tiny— he stands at around 5'5''. He's pretty athletic— and looks it too, although we don't see much of his bare arms in the series. When he turns into a wolf, he grows a bit of unfortunate facial hair and his eyes are, of course, the standard werewolf yellow in that form. He likes to dress like a typical teenaged jock.
Age: 15
AU Clarification: I am reapping him to Planetfall with no memories of his time on the Tranquility.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: Liam sunk down in a corner of one of the jungle levels of the oxygen garden. He'd come here because being up here helped him relax, even if it was nothing like the forests in California. Today it wasn't enough to just come up here, though. He was starting to feel worse— so he'd brought something else with him.
He couldn't help but snort as he shook out the pills onto his hand. They were such tiny little pills when he actually looked at them. If he so much as had an angry thought, he'd probably crush them to powder.
He didn't get why this was what he'd ended up with— two months worth of pills that he'd stopped taking months before he'd ended up on the Tranquility. Even thought it had been days already, he was still half convinced that he'd wake up and he'd be back in Beacon Hills. That was probably too much to hope for at this point, but that was part of the reason he had these pills with him in the first place.
He'd tried the words already today— "the sun, the moon, and the truth." It was impossible to tell when the moon was going to be full here, but he could feel his thoughts race in that way that used to only precede him breaking something but now also sometimes preceded him growing fangs or claws. They had been enough, that one time, but he'd wanted to protect Scott, then. He'd had people to protect, then.
He didn't know if anyone from Beacon Hills was here, not really. He hadn't really bothered to look through the directory on that weird phone he got, or anything. He was still half-convinced that this was all just a dream and he was going to wake up tomorrow. But he knew that Scott wasn't here. He'd be able to tell that no matter what— and without Scott around, without his alpha around, it was getting harder and harder to keep his mind clear.
Maybe taking something that made him tired wouldn't be too bad right now. It wasn't like he could even play lacrosse if he wanted to. And if taking some of these could help him keep this under control, maybe that wouldn't be too bad.
Comms Sample: [As crazy as his first few days here have been, it takes a little longer for Liam to actually use the network. It's not that he's afraid of technology— far from it. But you can never be entirely sure who you're going to reach like this.]
Hey— [And then, of course, his voice has to crack, so he takes another moment to get his voice down to the proper octave.]
Hey. [Better.] So— I'm wondering if there's a way to make sure someone else shows up? Like, how do they decide who gets put here, anyways. I'm pretty sure this guy I'm looking for would do way better at this than I would.
[That was the understatement of the year.]
So yeah. I don't really know how long it'll be before someone else can show up— but if it could be like tomorrow that would be good.
Thanks.